Heya,
If you read the first blog posting-- the very first one in the whole blog-- I explain what the blog is for and why we are doing it.
There are documents at the bottom of the blog, on the right hand side, one of them labelled "About This Blog"-- that one also contains the same information.
The Twitter issue I just blogged about is also related to why we are blogging like this . . .
But as with everything in 102-- I'm also not telling you what to do in the blog because part of the point is to get all of you to own responsibility for what can happen there. As such, in the next couple of weeks we'll be looking at some blogs and asking those questions-- but I'm not telling you the answer. The point is how all of *you* answer it.
I created the Blog to be a *student* space-- one which might inform our classroom space and our research, but ultimately one for which the students are primarily responsible-- not the teacher.
That is being done on purpose-- because what happens in student space and what happens in "classroom" or "teacher" space is really very different. This blog is my way of responding to scholarship which has suggested that instead of "ignoring" this "backchannel" or student space-- that teachers might better *encourage* this kind of interaction as a space in which *real* learning happens. If learning means making connections between what's going on and other things in your life, then sometimes "in class" isn't the best place to really do that. Sometime the real connections get made in the "backchannel" . .. in the spaces that teachers don't normally see. And those connections get made in the midst of a lot of real life stuff-- like what TV show you are watching, that might initially seem like it doesn't matter or is irrelevant.
That's why there is so much freedom being given here for the blogging space-- its for you to own, not me. In this space, I can participate, but only as an equal to all of the rest of you.
-Adam
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